The announcement in January that the Cleveland Indians will
remove the “Chief Wahoo” logo from use on the field has invited a
reexamination of sports teams’ use of Native American-inspired
names and imagery. Research presents arguments against the use of
Native American sports mascots, so why does the practice persist?
Q: What was behind the decision to remove Chief Wahoo?

One way to gauge the world’s pace of innovation is to
measure how many people fear failure in business. In a
just-released survey of 44 countries by Amway, about half of 50,000
people interviewed said they would be willing to risk failure if
they were to start a business.

Weaving through her childhood cité – or social housing
block – in the Parisian suburb of Villemomble, Hafida Guebli
passes a gaping hole where the library used to be. It burned down
during the 2005 riots that spilled over from nearby
Clichy-sous-Bois and left numerous Paris banlieues in ruin. Ms.
Guebli remembers the violence, police brutality, and skepticism of
those days.

In 2009, both Tahiesha Howard and the state of Kentucky were
looking for a fresh start. Ms. Howard’s childhood was such a blur
of dysfunction and addiction she says she couldn’t remember her
first drink of alcohol. Kentucky, meanwhile, had become a poster
child for ineffective and unsustainable mass incarceration – its
prison system growing at quadruple the national average despite a
consistently low crime rate.

A man wipes off the headlights of the L.L. Bean Bootmobile in
the parking lot at the facility where the famous outdoor boot is
made. L.L. Bean is pushing back against a boycott led by a group
urging consumers not to shop at retailers that support
President-elect Donald Trump after it was revealed that Linda Bean,
heir of the Maine-based company’s founder, had donated to a
political action committee that helped elect Trump. “We are deeply
troubled by the portrayal of L.L. Bean as a supporter of any
political agenda,” Shawn Gorman, L.L. Bean’s executive chairman,
said in a statement posted to Facebook late Sunday.

Trump tours a Carrier factory in Indianapolis, Dec. 1, 2016.
Chuck Jones, the union leader who claims President-elect Donald
Trump lied to Carrier employees while touting a deal to keep jobs
in the U.S., says he started receiving harassing phone calls a half
hour after Trump slammed him on Twitter. “I’ve been doing this job
for 30 years,” Jones, president of the United Steelworkers Local
1999, told CNN on Thursday morning.